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    Volume 10 Issue 3

    Peer-reviewed publication
    March, 2021
    Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, United Kingdom, Mexico, Malta, Malaysia, Panama, Romania, Seychelles, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America

    Property boundaries have a significant importance in cadaster as they define the legal extent of the ownership rights. Among 3D data models, Industry Foundation Class (IFC) provides the potential capabilities for modelling property boundaries in a 3D environment. In some jurisdictions, such as Victoria, Australia, some property boundaries are assigned to the faces of building elements which are modelled as solids in IFC. In order to retrieve these property boundaries, boundary identification analysis should be performed, and faces of building elements should be extracted.

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    Reports & Research
    January, 2017
    Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Puerto Rico, United States of America

    This paper examines willingness to pay for housing tenure security in favelas in six Brazilian states, Ceara, Paraiba, Pernambuco and in the north-east, Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo in the south-east, and Rio Grande do Sul in the south, using data from the national household survey (Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicilios, PNAD) for 2002.

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    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2019
    Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Cape Verde, Antigua and Barbuda, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Guyana, Suriname, Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea, Samoa

    Land degradation exacerbates the unique vulnerabilities of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to environmental challenges, such as climate change, flash floods, soil erosion, lagoon siltation, coastal erosion and sea level rise, undermining their economic potential. Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) contributes to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in SIDS, preserving biodiversity and increasing resilience to climate change. Land degradation has a strong negative impact on climate-sensitive sectors like agriculture, water resources management and coastal zone management.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2019
    Caribbean, Dominican Republic, Central America, Guatemala, Mexico, South America, Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru

    The extensive arable land and great biodiversity present in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have the potential to ensure sustenance and a good quality of life for its more than 600 million inhabitants. LAC has experienced important changes in land use. When the Europeans arrived in the 15th century, the forest cover of LAC accounted for approximately 75 per cent of the territory.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    March, 2018
    South America, Central America, Caribbean, Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa

    Internal climate migrants are rapidly becoming the human face of climate change. According to this new World Bank report, without urgent global and national climate action, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America could see more than 140 million people move within their countries’ borders by 2050.

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    Taller sobre Estructura Agraria y Población

    Conference Papers & Reports
    November, 1975
    Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, South America, Central America

    Se presentan, los avances de la investigacion en relacion a los factores estrategicos del cambio demografico a nivel rural, estableciendo las areas que inciden en el aporte neto de un hijo adicional. Estas areas se integran en 3 categorias de analisis: contexto socio-espacial, insercion en la estructura productiva y area de politicas publicas. Finalmente, se avanza en una tipologia de estructuras agrarias de acuerdo a las caracteristicas de los factores de la estructura agraria vinculados al comportamiento reproductivo.

  7. Library Resource

    Land Use Policy Volume 84

    Peer-reviewed publication
    May, 2019
    Aruba, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Portugal, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America, Venezuela

    In the face of increasing socio-economic and climatic pressures in growing cities, it is rational for managers to consider multiple approaches for securing water availability. One often disregarded option is the promotion of reforestation in source regions supplying important quantities of atmospheric moisture transported over long distances through aerial rivers, affecting water resources of a city via precipitation and runoff (‘smart reforestation’). Here we present a case demonstrating smart reforestation’s potential as a water management option.

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    Volume 9 Issue 11

    Peer-reviewed publication
    November, 2020
    Puerto Rico, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, United States of America, Spain

    Soil quality indexes (SQIs) are very useful in assessing the status and edaphic health of soils. This is particularly the case in the Mediterranean area, where successive torrential rainfall episodes give rise to erosion and soil degradation processes; these are being exacerbated by the current climate crisis. The objective of this study was to analyze the soil quality in two contrasting Mediterranean watersheds in the province of Malaga (Spain): the middle and upper watersheds of the Rio Grande (sub-humid conditions) and the Benamargosa River (semi-arid conditions).

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